Anybody else notice that the online timetable seems to have changed? I could swear at some point in the last 36 hours or so the schedule showed more flights, including the Memphis-New Orleans flights. The current schedule is just the flights from Memphis, Olive Branch and Oxford Destin / Panama City and Gulf Shores, with between 1 and 4 flights per week in each market.

I give them credit for trying something different, but this definitely flies in the face of a lot of conventional wisdom. Memphis-Destin is about 2:15 flying time versus about 7:45 driving, so there's time savings. But is it enough time savings to offset the inconvenience of having to confirm to the airline's a-few-flights-per-week schedule, and also to offset the cost of renting a car?

Interesting. I've always thought there might be money to be made, flying routes from Tennessee and northern MS/AL/GA to the Gulf Coast. Lots of people drive those routes, but it's pretty much a full day's drive, and a lot of it is on secondary roads.

"Southern Airways Express has a fleet of Cessna 208 Caravans and 208B Grand Caravans. All aircraft are outfitted with nine luxury leather passenger seats, an iPad and Bose headset for each passenger, and space in the cabin for one personal item, such as a briefcase of purse. The planes are powered by 675-horsepower PT-6 turbojet engines, one of the most reliable engines in service throughout the world."

"Southern Airways Express has a fleet of Cessna 208 Caravans and 208B Grand Caravans. All aircraft are outfitted with nine luxury leather passenger seats, an iPad and Bose headset for each passenger, and space in the cabin for one personal item, such as a briefcase of purse. The planes are powered by 675-horsepower PT-6 turbojet engines, one of the most reliable engines in service throughout the world."

There are two C208s that have been flying out of OLV to the destinations of Southern so must be for them. They are listed as owned by JA Flight Services and/or BA Jacobs Flight Services (I assume same entity).